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matroid

noun

Etymology

From matrix + -oid. They were so named by Hassler Whitney in 1935 in an article titled “On the abstract properties of linear dependence”.

  1. derived from mātrīx
  2. derived from matrice
  3. inherited from matris
  4. suffixed as matroid — “matrix + oid”

Definitions

  1. A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes…

    A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs.

    • A matroid can be defined in terms of bases. A matroid consists of a ground set as well as a set of bases which is a nonempty subset of the power set of the ground set.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for matroid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA